Although true that the western hemisphere didn't have the European honey bee before European contact, there were different species of honey bees here.
The bumble bee is but one example.

Their are many insect pollinators besides bees. Of course, like many other insects, they are specialized to pollinate certain plants. I've been seeing
a lot of European honey bees around my place this year, at one point the house was being swarmed it seemed.

Since I've cleared the trees out from around the house, many different wildflowers have been taking over. I've seen many different pollinators
including honey bees, bumble bees (at least 3 types), hover flies, wasps, hornets (many kinds), butterflies, ants, and a number of others.

Your point is valid concerning native plants and their native pollinators, but the European honey bee is a general pollinator that visits almost any
flower and is invaluable to our monoculture farming system.

I dont know about Monsanto products being the biggest killer of bees , i thought the bee mite was their biggest threat . en.wikipedia.org...

As of mid-2012, Australia is thought to be free of the mite.[9][10] In early 2010, an isolated subspecies of bee was discovered in Kufra (southeastern
Libya) that appears to be free of the mite.[11] The Hawaiian islands of Maui, Kauai, Molokai, and Lanai are all free of the mite.

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